Last year of your 20's...
Dear Steve,
Welcome to the last year of your 20's...how does it feel?! Is it crazy to think in one short year from now, you will be passing into a new decade? The last time you did that, you were young and enjoying your college days at Texas Tech. It's amazing what happens in ten years...well even one year for that matter!
I'm very thankful for you.
I could stop there, but I shall elaborate! Afterall, you know I'm not one to speak just a few words ;) I like simple, but I also like complex (probably more of the latter though!) I know you don't like to have the spotlight and for attention to be drawn to yourself, but allow me to brag about you for a minute. Not for your own glory and that people will think you're so amazing, but so that the Lord may get ALL the glory due His name with having created you, for Himself.
I have found myself in the past few weeks pondering just how thankful I am for you. It seems as we passed into the month of October, I've had fun thinking about and enjoying many memories you and I have created together and how the Lord has worked in our lives.
I find myself to be a very difficult person to love sometimes, yet you make it look so easy. I think only you could do so because God has enabled you to. Thank you for loving me.
You speak life to me and others with a gentle candor that can only be attributed to the Lord's Grace in your life.
You work diligently at your job. You press into people, not to challenge them in a rude manner, but to be an agent of change for those around you.
You make me laugh. A lot. You are cute when you laugh really hard and I enjoy seeing you to the point of tears when you laugh that hard!
You are tender and sensitive to the Lord's working in your life. God is molding you into a great person and I hope our children will one day see and say you have been faithful to the Lord and have desired Him above all, which is the one of the greatest gifts and legacies you can leave to them.
You give selflessly and are always there for someone when they need you, even if that means changing your own plans.
You are an amazing father to our children. You are so cute when you get down on the floor and play with them, from letting Karis ride on your back for yet another round of horsey in the living room to getting Isaac to giggle as loud as he can by kissing him on his chubby cheeks to *teet* parties with your little princess. Our children adore you. They miss you terribly when you travel, and LOVE when you get home! I tell them often when you're traveling for work that "their daddy is a wonderful provider and does his best to take care of us, and sometimes that takes him away for a few days". You love teaching them about their Creator, our Savior, and it's amazing to have a husband who desires to see the lives of his children saved and changed by the Gospel.
You are the person I love to be around the most and you cheer me up and encourage me at just the right moments. I like when I sit and talk to you about all the fun memories we've made and I say "oh that's one of my favorite moments, I wish we could go back there" to which you respond, "no way, I love life with you right now!" I treasure that you love me more today than you did when when we first began loving each other.
I know we're in a busy season of life right now and you are tired now more than ever...but you are loving and serving us, your family, well. I admire your patience and endurance during this season and can't help but be thankful that I get to walk this journey of life with you!
So to the Lord, be all Glory for the man you are and who He created you to be! May His name be praised today, on your 29th birthday.
Love,
Your Doll
Welcome to the last year of your 20's...how does it feel?! Is it crazy to think in one short year from now, you will be passing into a new decade? The last time you did that, you were young and enjoying your college days at Texas Tech. It's amazing what happens in ten years...well even one year for that matter!
I'm very thankful for you.
I could stop there, but I shall elaborate! Afterall, you know I'm not one to speak just a few words ;) I like simple, but I also like complex (probably more of the latter though!) I know you don't like to have the spotlight and for attention to be drawn to yourself, but allow me to brag about you for a minute. Not for your own glory and that people will think you're so amazing, but so that the Lord may get ALL the glory due His name with having created you, for Himself.
I have found myself in the past few weeks pondering just how thankful I am for you. It seems as we passed into the month of October, I've had fun thinking about and enjoying many memories you and I have created together and how the Lord has worked in our lives.
I find myself to be a very difficult person to love sometimes, yet you make it look so easy. I think only you could do so because God has enabled you to. Thank you for loving me.
You speak life to me and others with a gentle candor that can only be attributed to the Lord's Grace in your life.
You work diligently at your job. You press into people, not to challenge them in a rude manner, but to be an agent of change for those around you.
You make me laugh. A lot. You are cute when you laugh really hard and I enjoy seeing you to the point of tears when you laugh that hard!
You are tender and sensitive to the Lord's working in your life. God is molding you into a great person and I hope our children will one day see and say you have been faithful to the Lord and have desired Him above all, which is the one of the greatest gifts and legacies you can leave to them.
You give selflessly and are always there for someone when they need you, even if that means changing your own plans.
You are an amazing father to our children. You are so cute when you get down on the floor and play with them, from letting Karis ride on your back for yet another round of horsey in the living room to getting Isaac to giggle as loud as he can by kissing him on his chubby cheeks to *teet* parties with your little princess. Our children adore you. They miss you terribly when you travel, and LOVE when you get home! I tell them often when you're traveling for work that "their daddy is a wonderful provider and does his best to take care of us, and sometimes that takes him away for a few days". You love teaching them about their Creator, our Savior, and it's amazing to have a husband who desires to see the lives of his children saved and changed by the Gospel.
You are the person I love to be around the most and you cheer me up and encourage me at just the right moments. I like when I sit and talk to you about all the fun memories we've made and I say "oh that's one of my favorite moments, I wish we could go back there" to which you respond, "no way, I love life with you right now!" I treasure that you love me more today than you did when when we first began loving each other.
I know we're in a busy season of life right now and you are tired now more than ever...but you are loving and serving us, your family, well. I admire your patience and endurance during this season and can't help but be thankful that I get to walk this journey of life with you!
So to the Lord, be all Glory for the man you are and who He created you to be! May His name be praised today, on your 29th birthday.
Love,
Your Doll
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